Punch machine....Swamp ash body?

[xSweep]

I've been looking to add a guitar to my collection with a highly punchy low end with a lot of push and quick tracking tight bass.

From what I have come to conclude through personal experience and research:

Swamp Ash is generally considered the most punchy standard tonewood for a guitar. Chambering helps out quite a bit but really slows the the response time on stops.

My question is what do you guys think of a non chambered Swamp Ash body as the punchiest tightest tonewood for a guitar?





The next step would be a Wenge neck and Pao Ferro board with stainless frets.

 

[Nando Vallart]

Mahogany body... Wenge neck will be cool, I'd put Rosewood fingerboard for add more lows!

 

[xSweep]

I suppose it would be important to iterate that I'm not actually looking for a lot of low end. Rather, a quick tracking tight low end. You're probably right on Swamp Ash just being to bright in general though.

Every guitar I own is Mahagony haha. I'm trying to stay away from that wood with this build I suppose.

 

[-CB-]

Punchiest guitar I ever put together, or played, was a solid maple body Telecaster, with a medium thick maple neck and pau ferro board.  The pickups were 57Classics and it was ubber-Paulish in tone.  Not overly bright, but very good sustain due to the thicker maple neck and non resonant body.  It had a Strat hardtail bridge.  Great guitar - a customer stole it from me for a song, and he will not part with it for nothin'.

 

[Death by Uberschall]

Korina  :icon_thumright:

 

[Alfang]

Great guitar - a customer stole it from me for a song, and he will not part with it for nothin'.

What was the song?  It wasn't the Barney theme song was it? I lost an old guitar to that song too, I hate that song now.

 

[-CB-]

Worse, it was more like Mr Rodgers meets I Dream of Genie played backwards at 78 speed.

 

[DangerousR6]

Korina  :icon_thumright:

Korina's has a darker tone to it, maple with wenge neck would be punchier or I've even got a couple basswood bodies with all maple necks that are quite punchy... :icon_biggrin: